Tyson Pleads Guilty and Pays Fine For Safety Violations That Led To Workers Death

Tyson Foods pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Arkansas on January 6, 2008 and agreed to pay a fine of $500,000 for violating worker safety regulations that led to a worker’s death in its River Valley Animal Foods plant in Texarkana, Ark. A maintenance employee at the plant died in October 2003 after he was overcome with hydrogen sulfide gas while repairing a leak from a hydrolyzer. The company will also serve one year probation.

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